Triage

There's a rather silly proposal to remove malware infected PCs from the internet apparently being made by Microsoft, accompanied by some laughably tame criticism of the security of Microsoft operating systems.

It all sounds rather dystopian, but somehow I think the chances of a system like this going ahead are incredibly slim indeed.  Apart from the general kerfuffle which would be caused, such a strategy would result in the biggest migration of PC users from Windows to Linux ever known.

Perhaps they're thinking that this would maximise revenue for the companies selling "security" software, and increase the amount of business coming from support contracts, as in the Cyber Clean Center.  There might be some truth in this, and when you take a look at the companies participating in the Cyber Clean Center, they're all the usual suspects who would stand to benefit financially from a more coercive approach to network security.